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Fun fact: Irish [Gaelic] poetry only switched from syllabic to stressed metre about the eighteenth century. One product of the transition was poems in the form
by leoc 5y ago
Fun fact: Irish [Gaelic] poetry only switched from syllabic to stressed metre about the eighteenth century. One product of the transition was poems in the form of trí rainn agus amhrán, having three stanzas of syllabic metre then a final stanza of stressed metre, for example "Tithe Chorr an Chait": http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/TRAA/TRAA40.html http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/TRAA/TRAA40.html .
- jan_Inkepa 5y agoThat's super interesting. My familiarity with Irish song isn't great, but I had a fun several minutes minutes reading the poem over and over slowly getting an idea for what rhythm/pacing suited it. Thanks!
- jan_Inkepa 5y agoThough, looking at the poem again - strictly in terms of syllable structure the final verse is far more regular than the rest in terms of its syllable structure, so I don't know how much sense it makes to categorise the final verse as accentual (in contrast to the rest)? Though I understand it might represent a break from an older tradition of highly constrained poetry, of which careful consideration about syllables is one part. OTOH even the final verse has a lot of classical-seeming features (internal rhyming/alliteration c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_syllabic_poetry#Technique_in_dán_d%C3%ADreach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_syllabic_poetry#Techniqu... ) https://imgur.com/a/4HZmu64 https://imgur.com/a/4HZmu64 is my attempt at marking strong vs weak syllables. (I don't know the old Irish syllabic tradition, so in particular I don't know how to categorise some of the starting syllables, and probably messed up a bunch) [ Apologies to whatever extent this is ignorant/incorrect! ]